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Somewhere in the Andaman Sea.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
October 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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come work in the same hallway as me
Open immediately -- postdoc, speech motor control and speech motor neuroscience w/ C. Niziolek + B. Parrell, U. Wisconsin Madison blab.wisc.edu/join-the-lab/ [see Postdoctoral researchers tab]
October 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

"We've rounded the coordinates"
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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how's your day going

#rstats

paste0(sample(c(letters, LETTERS, 0:9,
strsplit("!@#$%^&*()_+=-~", "")[[1]]), 56),
collapse = "")
October 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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We should have a fix for this in the latest daily builds, and we're planning to prepare a patch release as soon as we can. dailies.rstudio.com
RStudio Latest Builds
dailies.rstudio.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Confirmed to be a bug, sorry about that
September 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Who is excited for trivia?! Come roast me for the questions I wrote 😂 I can't wait to see how people do! Sure, it would be fun to win, but the real prize is just hanging out and having a good time together as a data community ❤️

Make sure you're registered for #positconf!!

#databs #rstats #python
Yo yo! Virtual day for #PositConf2025 tomorrow. Libby ( @libbyheeren.bsky.social ) and I are hosting the data science trivia. Compete for the swag! Swag, swag, swag!
More info: posit.co/blog/posit-c...
September 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Are my #rstats and #positconf attending peoples still on here? I keep forgetting I have this 😅👀

Having all the fomo not getting to attend in person again 😭
September 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I Vibe Coded an R Package
and it ... actually works?!?

https://jcarroll.com.au/2025/09/13/i-vibe-coded-an-r-package/

I wanted an #rstats package to exist so I spent $20 and got Claude Code to build it for me.

Plus a shiny app using it: https://jcarroll.shinyapps.io/kanjiexplorer/
September 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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It's the perfect day to message your crush and tell them you would like very much that their proximity was closer to yours

#50 👌🎶
September 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Heads up aussie #rstats friends- this looks like fun!!
Register today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra

This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming.

Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac...

#rstats #datascience
August 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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input = c(1,255,10)
as.character(as.hexmode(strtoi(as.character(input, base = 2))))

[1] "1" "ff" "a"

You could use paste0 if you wanted the output as a single string
August 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Hi #rstats friends, I'll be at #user2025! 👋 Find me for hex stickers :)
August 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Regular R serialization caches only reference objects - like environments

{zap} can detect duplicated data.frames/lists in an R object + write a reference instead of the full object

Pathological example of a nested binary tree with 16 levels shows how good […]

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July 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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no one prepares you for how much effort goes into documenting your packages.

Honestly its more effort than doing the actual package

#rstats
July 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Placeholder package name for this new #rstats graphics device:

Dev Leopard
July 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Thinking of learning how to host a website to have a place where to archive all my #rstats shitposts.
July 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Re-submitting to CRAN - a story in 4 images

#rstats
February 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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#rstats Dev Diary - New gfx device WIP

Making some progress on a new interactive graphics device + event loop.

My aim is to have cross-platform gfx window with fast framerate and full keyboard/mouse support.

It won't work like a standard R gfx device as […]

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February 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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GM code art friends

ATC / Air Traffic Control (R code)

New algorithm based generative art written in #rstats

#genart #genartclub
February 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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This was raised all the way back in ‘16 that the R community is setting itself up for problems not building infrastructure/sdlc for GH pkg dev. Sorry to say, 10 years of duct tape and inconsistent repository regulations and requirements have put fires out and not innovated for community growth
February 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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#rstats R version 4.3.2 "Eye Holes" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)
Index of /src/base/R-4
cran.r-project.org
October 31, 2023 at 9:16 AM